Image of Pacific Mole Crab
Description:
Emerita is a small genus of decapod crustaceans, known as mole crabs. These are small animals that burrow in the sand in the wash zone and use their antennae for filter feeding. Pacific mole crab, Emerita analoga.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Ecdysozoa (ecdysozoans)
- Arthropoda (arthropods)
- Pancrustacea
- Multicrustacea (typical crustaceans)
- Malacostraca (malacostracans)
- Eumalacostraca
- Eucarida
- Decapoda (decapods)
- Pleocyemata (pleocyematans)
- Anomura (Hermit Crabs and Mole Crabs)
- Hippoidea (mole crabs)
- Hippidae (mole crabs)
- Emerita
- Emerita analoga (Pacific Mole Crab)
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- Gerald and Buff Corsi
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